Ask Dr. Vinton Cerf About the Internet

Posted by Roblimo on Monday September 30, 2002 @04:00AM from the more-honorary-degrees-than-some-people-have-socks dept.

If anyone can claim to have "invented the Internet," (or at least to have co-invented it) it's Vint Cerf, who never makes this claim himself. But he's certainly had a hand in shaping most of what we call "the Internet" today, and is now working on taking the Internet or something like it to Mars and other planets. A Google Search for "Vint Cerf" brings up thousands of responses, so you should have no trouble coming up with a unique, interesting question for him. (As is usual with Slashdot interviews, we'll send 10 of the top-moderated questions to Dr. Cerf about 24 hours after this post, and publish his answers shortly after he gets them back to us.)

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Re:Better place? by unicron · 2002-09-30 04:12 · Score: 5, Funny

Follow up question: Has fire made this a better world, and how do you feel about the wheel and agriculture?

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OSI vs. TCP/IP by bluestar · 2002-09-30 04:32 · Score: 5, Funny

TCP/IP was originally designed as interim solution until OSI could be finished. When do you expect that to happen?

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